In the backwoods of Tennessee, faith has teeth—and gods don’t stay buried.
In 1933, young Stella is sent to live with her grandmother, Motty, deep in the Smoky Mountains. There she discovers the family’s terrifying secret: a personal god known only as Ghostdaddy, lurking in a cavern’s shadows.
Years later, Stella has escaped into a life of bootlegging and silence—until Motty dies, forcing her return to reckon with the past. But the family’s god isn’t gone. And neither is the faith that shaped her, now embodied by a mysterious child named Sunny.
Revelator is a chilling, lyrical Southern Gothic full of gods, grief, and generational trauma.
From the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders, this is a tale of dark devotion and the price of escaping your roots.
